Easter

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Dear friends,

 

I did not intend to send easter greetings- if everyone did, the list would be

overloaded!

But I just now saw a report on TV about a 7 year-old girl who died recently, a

spastic child. Within those 7 years she was a joy for the parents, her

intelligence, understanding and sweetness had been so intensive, that the mother

was able to talk about her without breaking into tears, but sure that she was in

heaven......

 

"Unless ye be as the little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of

heaven!"

 

"I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me shall live forever,

though he be dead!"

 

In the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Rome there is an ancient plaque bearing the

inscription "Jesus the Nazarene, King of Juda" in the three languages, Hebrew,

Latin and greek. Hebrew is read from right to left. The Latin and Greek texts

are also written from right to left!

 

A journalist friend of mine spent two years investigating the genuineness of

this plaque - and with 99% certainty, it is the plaque that was nailed to the

holy cross. He hs written a book reporting his findings and has

presented/dedicated it to the pope at a private audience.

 

The cross has many meanings. The Egyptian cross, the Ankh, is a symbol of life

and eternity. In astrology it is the earth and the part of fortune. It is the

core of the swastika, the rotating self-being. In esoteric teachings it is

a symbol of the heart. Jesus was crucified on a proper cross, his heart more or

less at the crossing of the beams. Criminals on a reversed Tau-cross, crucified

with the head down. Peter was crucified in this manner, though not a criminal.

 

Pilate was caught in a quandary: his wife was a "christian", his conscience did

not justify the punishment. But the threat of the sadducees, that they would

expose him as a supporter of Jesus as the true King, in opposition to Roman

authority, led him to save his skin, to order the execution. He did his best to

satisfy both sides: gave Jesus an "honorable" crucifixion. The inscription was

not cynical, but a last attempt to redeem himself! Writing the Greek and Latin

from right to left was the "cynical" message: I have satisfied you, but not

myself!" Pilate paid for his sins - the Roman law caught up with him for

irregularities!

 

jesus himself was a cross between Rama and Krishna: one was rarely aware of his

divinity, the other always aware, but separated from us because of that. Jesus

was mostly aware, but was able to share human experiences. He not only preached,

but also administered at the social level. Did not tell us how to be, but showed

how to be.

 

This is the first Easter of the new millennium. May it be a new awakening.

 

 

Om Christave namaha!

 

regards

Mani

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gjlist, subra@t... wrote:

> Dear friends,

>

> I did not intend to send easter greetings- if everyone did, the list

would be

> overloaded.

>

> "Unless ye be as the little children, ye shall not enter into the

kingdom of

> heaven!"

>

> "I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me shall

live forever,

> though he be dead!"

 

> jesus himself was a cross between Rama and Krishna: one was rarely

aware of his

> divinity, the other always aware, but separated from us because of

that. Jesus

> was mostly aware, but was able to share human experiences. He not

only preached,

> but also administered at the social level. Did not tell us how to

be, but showed

> how to be.

>

> This is the first Easter of the new millennium. May it be a new

awakening.

>

>

> Om Christave namaha!

>

> regards

> Mani

 

 

Om Christave Namah!!

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!

 

Namaste dear ones!!!

 

thank you dear elder brother, for sharing that sweet and Loving Easter

message...it as usual had me in tears of Divine Love thru-out the

entire letter...Dear One, you are so full of sweetness and light...

i feel Amma Herself, and the Christ too, speaking thru you, even if i

don't always agree with the details, i most certainly love the depth

of feeling and the universality of your viewing....

 

i'm not so sure about Sri Krsna as being "separated" from the rest of

us by His awarenens of His own Divinity though....first of all, we are

not with Him to check this out, right now....and second of all we have

Ammachi as a reference....Ammachi, Who is fully aware of Who She is,

and has been since birth...and yet has come right down to our levels

to walk with us, and give us counsel, and just as the Christ to model

the right way of living to us...Who are we to judge the Avatars as to

the "fullness" of the Divine Being within them...especially as we are

so blind ourselves! (just a tiny "criticism" dear brother!)

 

i don't think that Amma feels any separation at all between Herself

and Her children...She Herself, says:"I am the you that is in you and

you are the me that is in me.".....Does this imply any feeling of

separation....and if we read the Gita...do we see any signs of

feelings of separationg between Sri Krsna and his devotees? not in my

way of seeing..

 

Perhaps Sri Krsna was just like Christ and Amma, and was daily moving

about with His friends, and being the ideal model Himself, just as

Christ did and Ammachi does.......perhaps Sri Krsna never felt any

separation at all between Himself and the devotees, Who are after all

His own....and little sparks of Himself.....perhaps only you, dear

brother, feel there was some separation there...i feel that Sri Krsna,

being the Godhead, would not be feeling separate from anyone or

anything...but rather would be feeling constantly oneness with all of

His creation, such that sometimes it must have been "difficult" to

remember just which one of His bodies He should be operating in just

which manner...

 

This is what Paramahansa Yoganandaji reported to one of his

disciples...that He felt Himself to be in so many bodies that it was

hard to know which one was the Yogananda body...

 

So please forgive me for my little issue with you over Sri Krsna,

because i see Sri Krsna and Christ and Ammachi as all the Same

Being...incarnating in different eras for the wellbeing of the entire

world...that Divine Consciousness, which has no Name or Form, and is

"Nirguna", from time to time has promised, whenever Dharma declines

upon the Earth, and the evil ones are over-running it, to take a birth

in the "Saguna"(with-form), to uplift and protect the devotees, and

destroy the evil....this is a promise given and recorded in many of

the Sanatana Dharma Scriptures...so why do we need to differentiate so

much between them? They would see no such differences...

Each Avatar is suited to the time in which S/He takes birth....and

will thus appear differently, and give different seeming teachings,

which are suited to the particular devotees of the time...

 

May Christ, and Sri Krsna, and the Divine Mother bless us always,

in whichever form we find most attractive!

 

In Her Divine Love

and in Her Service,

 

as ever,

your stumbling

little brother

who always thinks

he knows it all

but who

learns

so Much

from his

beloved

elder brother

Mani!!!

 

as ever,

your Own Self,

 

visvanathan

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!

 

 

 

In